Greeting Song of Spring (Thomas William Hubbard)

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• (Posted 2023-10-30)  CPDL #76831:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-30).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 570 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Greeting Song of Spring
Composer: Thomas William Hubbard
Lyricist: Felicia Hemans
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, A divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1882 Thomas W. Hubbard
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Original text and translations

English text

I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o’er the mountain with light and song!
Ye may trace my way o’er the wakening earth,
By the winds that tell of the violet’s birth,
By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

From the streams and founts I have loosed the chain,
They are sweeping on to the silvery main,
They are flashing down from the mountain brows,
They are flinging their spray on the forest-boughs.

I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o’er the mountain with light and song!
Ye may trace my step o’er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet’s birth.

I looked on the hills of the stormy north,
And the larch has hung all his tassels forth;
And the fisher is out on the stormy sea,
And the reindeer bounds o’er the pastures free,
And the pine has a fringe of softer green,
And the moss looks bright, where my foot has been.